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science branches curious
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. Ernst Mayr
science men gnats
Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable. Henry David Thoreau
science fiction would-be
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out. Robert Sheckley
science moon light
... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other? William Herschel
science sky memorial
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
science space mystery
I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.
science execution genius
Execution is the chariot of genius. William Blake
science age earth
Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. William Cowper
science discovery long
Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better. Xenophanes
heaven legends crime
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are. James A. Baldwin
heaven church christianity
Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception. George Washington
heaven found certainty
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without. Henry Miller
heaven suffering earth
Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite. Henri Frederic Amiel
heaven earth infinite
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
heaven world demon
Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore. Cassandra Clare
heaven world
So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world. George Eliot
heaven mind movement
How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?
heaven earth fit
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.